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WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS | ALLEN GINSBERG

Allen Ginsberg

Books and Pamphlets | Bibliography, Biography, and Criticism | Foreign Translations | Records and Tapes | Miscellaneous

Entries for items included in the Allan H. Kurtzman Collection of Beat Literature are preceded with an asterisk (*).



Books and Pamphlets

* Airplane Dreams: Compositions from Journals. Toronto: Anansi, 1968.

* Airplane Dreams: Compositions from Journals. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1969.

* Allen Ginsberg on Tour Feb. 16, 1983, with Peter Orlovsky and Steven Taylor. 1st ed. Wuppertal, Germany: Lichtblick Video, 1983. English and German.

Book to the video by Joachim Ortmanns and Wolfgang Mohrhenn.

Allen Ginsberg: Photographs. 1st ed. Altadena, Calif.: Twelvetrees Press, c1990.

* Allen Verbatim: Lectures on Poetry, Politics, Consciousness. Edited by Gordon Ball. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1974.

* Ankor Wat. Photographs by Alexandra Lawrence. London: Fulcrum Press, 1968.

2 copies, one of which no. 92 of 100 specially bound numbered copies signed by the author.

* As Ever: The Collected Correspondence of Allen Ginsberg and Neal Cassady. Foreword by Carolyn Cassady; edited with an introduction by Barry Gifford; afterword by Allen Ginsberg. Berkeley, Calif.: Creative Arts Book Co., c1977.

* Bixby Canyon Ocean Path Word Breeze. New York: Gotham Book Mart, 1972.

No. 65 0f 100 signed copies.

Careless Love. Madison, Wis.: Red Ozier Press, 1978.

No. 75, signed by author, of limited ed. of 290 copies.

* Chicago Trial Testimony. San Francisco: City Lights, 1975.

Verbatim transcript of Allen Ginsberg's testimony as witness for the defendants (David T. Dellinger, et al.) in the 1969 "Chicago Seven" trial.

*Collected Poems, 1947-1980. 1st ed. New York: Harper & Row, c1984.

Collected Poems, 1947-1980. 1st Perennial Library ed. New York: Perennial Library, 1988, c1984.

* Composed on the Tongue. Edited by Donald Allen. Bolinas, Calif.: Grey Fox Press, c1980.

Cosmopolitan Greetings: Poems, 1986-1992. New York: HarperCollins, 1994.

* Empty Mirror: Early Poems. Introduction by William Carlos Williams. New York: Totem Press, 1961.

Empty Mirror: Early Poems by Allen Ginsberg. Introduction by William Carlos Williams. Newly designed ed. New York: Corinth Books, 1970.

* The Fall of America: Poems of These States, 1965-1971. (The Pocket Poets Series, no. 30) San Francisco: City Lights, c1972.

* "The Fall of America" Wins a Prize. New York: Gotham Book Mart and Gallery, c1974.

"This is the text of Allen Ginsberg's acceptance speech for the National Book Award in Poetry, delivered by Peter Orlovsky on April 18th, 1974, at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, New York City." No. 6 of 126 numbered copies signed by the author.

* First Blues: Rags, Ballads and Harmonium Songs, 1971-74. New York: Full Court Press, c1975.

Includes unaccompanied melodies by Ginsberg.

* The Gates of Wrath: Rhymed Poems, 1948-1952. 1st ed. Bolinas, Calif.: Grey Fox Press, 1972.

* Gay Sunshine Interview. With Allen Young. Bolinas, Calif.: Grey Fox Press, 1974.

* Howl, and Other Poems. 2d ed. (The Pocket Poets Series, no. 4) San Francisco: City Lights Pocket Bookshop, 1956.

Howl, and Other Poems. (The Pocket Poets Series, no. 4) San Francisco: City Lights Books, c1959.

Howl, and Other Poems. (The Pocket Poets Series, no. 4) San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1996.

Howl: Original Draft Facsimile. Edited by Barry Miles. 1st ed. New York: Harper and Row, c1986.

". . . transcript and variant versions, fully annotated by author, with contemporaneous correspondence, account of first public reading, legal skirmishes, precursor texts and bibliography."

Illuminated Poems. Illustrations by Eric Drooker. New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1996.

* Improvised Poetics. Edited and with an introduction by Mark Robison. San Francisco: Anonym, 1972, c1971.

* In Bed on My Green Purple Red Pink Yellow Orange Bolivian Blanket . . . New York: N.p., [196-?].

Reproduction of typescript and handwriting on brown paper; unbound.

* Indian Journals, March 1962(May 1963: Notebooks, Diary, Blank Pages, Writings. San Francisco: Dave Haselwood Books, 1970 (1971 printing).

* Iron Horse. Toronto: Coach House Press, 1972 [i.e., 1973].

An ed. of 1,000 copies. Signed by the author; presentation copy to "Charlie."

* Iron Horse. 2d ed. Toronto: Coach House Press, 1972 [i.e., 1973].

Signed by the author; presentation copy to Ted Berrigan.

* Journals: Early Fifties, Early Sixties. Edited by Gordon Ball. 1st ed. New York: Grove Press, 1977; distributed by Random House.

* Journals: Early Fifties, Early Sixties. Edited by Gordon Ball. 1st Evergreen ed. (An Evergreen Book) New York: Grove Press, 1978, c1977; distributed by Random House.

Journals Mid-fifties, 1954-1958. Edited by Gordon Ball. New York: HarperCollins, c1995.

* Kaddish, and Other Poems: 1958-1960. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1961.

* Many Loves. Drawings by Roberta L. Collier. New York: Pequod Press, 1984. No. 167 of a limited ed. of 500 copies.

* Mind Breaths: Poems, 1972-1977. (The Pocket Poets Series, no. 35) San Francisco: City Lights Books, c1978.

Signed by the author.

* The Moments Return: A Poem. With three drawings by Robert LaVigne. San Francisco: Grabhorn-Hoyem, 1970.

"200 copies printed."

* Mostly Sitting Haiku. 1st ed. (Xtras, no. 6) Paterson, N.J.: From Here Press, c1978.

* New Year Blues. 1st ed. (Oblong Octavo Series) New York: The Phoenix Book Shop, 1972.

No. 92 of an ed. of 126 copies, signed by the author.

* Notes After an Evening with William Carlos Williams. (Portents, 17) Brooklyn, N.Y.: S. Charters, [1970?].

Limited ed. of 300 copies.

* Open Head. With Lawrence Ferlinghetti's Open Eye. Melbourne: Sun Books, 1972.

Signed by Ferlinghetti.

* Planet News, 1961-1967. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1968.

No. 122 of 500 numbered and signed copies.

Planet News, 1961-1967. 1st American ed. (Pocket Poets Series, no. 23) San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1968.

* Plutonian Ode: Poems, 1977-1980. (Pocket Poets Series, no. 40) San Francisco: City Lights Books, c1982.

* Poems All Over the Place, Mostly 'Seventies. 1st ed. Cherry Valley, N.Y.: Cherry Valley Editions, 1978.

* Prose Contribution to Cuban Revolution. Detroit: Artists' Workshop Press, 1966.

* Reality Sandwiches, 1953-60. (Pocket Poets Series, no. 18) San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1963.

Signed by the author.

Reality Sandwiches, 1953-60. New ed. (Pocket Poets Series, no. 18) San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1966.

* Sad Dust Glories: Poems During Work Summer in Woods. Berkeley, Calif.: Workingmans Press, 1975; distributed by Serendipity Books.

* Scrap Leaves: Tasty Scribbles. Millbrook, N.Y. : Poet's Press, 1968.

* Selected Poems, 1947-1995. New York: HarperCollins, 1996.

* Snapshot Poetics: Allen Ginsberg's Photographic Memoir of the Beat Era. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1993.

Straight Hearts' Delight: Love Poems and Selected Letters, 1947-1980. With Peter Orlovsky; edited by Winston Leyland. San Francisco: Gay Sunshine Press, 1980.

* Take Care of My Ghost, Ghost. With Jack Kerouac. N.p.: Ghost Press, 1977.

Limited ed. of 200 copies.

To Eberhart from Ginsberg: A Letter about Howl, 1956. Lincoln, Mass.: Penmaen Press, 1976.

An explanation by Ginsberg of his publication Howl and Richard Eberhart's New York Times article "West Coast Rhythms," together with comments by both poets and relief etchings by Jerome Kaplan.

* T.V. Baby Poems. London: Cape Goliard Press, 1967.

Limited ed. of 400 casebound library copies.

* T.V. Baby Poems. 1st American ed. San Francisco: Beach Books, 1968.

T.V. Baby Poems. New York: Grossman, 1968.

* The Visions of the Great Rememberer. With letters by Neal Cassady and drawings by Basil King. (A Haystack Book) Amherst, Mass.: Mulch Press, c1974.

* Wales--A Visitation: July 29th 1967. 1st ed. London: Cape Goliard Press, c1968.

Of an edition limited to 300 copies, no. 72 of 100 numbered and signed copies that include a recording of the poem.

* White Shroud, 1983. Madras, India: Kalakshetra, 1984.

No. 148 of limited ed. of 1,111 copies.

White Shroud: Poems, 1980-1985. 1st ed. New York: Harper and Row, c1986.

* Wichita Vortex Sutra. (Peace News Poetry) London: Housmans, 1966.

Wichita Vortex Sutra. San Francisco: Coyote, c1966.; distributed by City Lights Books.

Limited ed. of 500 copies.

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Bibliography, Biography, and Criticism

Cassady, Carolyn. Off the Road: My Years with Cassady, Kerouac, and Ginsberg. New York: W. Morrow, 1990.

* Dowden, George. A Bibliography of Works by Allen Ginsberg, October 1943 to July 1, 1967. With a chronology and index by Laurence McGilvery and a foreword by Allen Ginsberg. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1971.

* Ehrlich, Jacob W., ed. Howl of the Censor. San Carlos, Calif.: Nourse Publishing Co., 1961.

Hyde, Lewis, ed. On the Poetry of Allen Ginsberg. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press, c1984.

* Kramer, Jane. Allen Ginsberg in America. New York: Random House, 1969.

­­­­­­. Paterfamilias: Allen Ginsberg in America. London: Gollancz, 1970.

Kraus, Michelle P. Allen Ginsberg, an Annotated Bibliography, 1969-1977. (Scarecrow Author Bibliographies, no. 46) Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1980.

* [Kurtzman, Allan H.] [A Collection of Printed Material about William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg and Michael McClure, ca.1965-] 6 archival boxes.

* Lucie-Smith, Edward. Mystery in the Universe. Notes on an interview with Allen Ginsberg. London: Turret Books, 1965.

No. 174 of limited ed. of 200 signed and numbered copies.

McBride, Dick. Cometh with Clouds: (Memory, Allen Ginsberg). Wheaton, Md.: Cherry Valley Editions, c1982; distributed by Writers and Books.

Merrill, Thomas F. Allen Ginsberg. (Twayne's United States Authors Series, TUSAS 161) Boston: Twayne Publishers, c1969.

­­­­­­. Allen Ginsberg. Rev. ed. (Twayne's United States Authors Series, TUSAS 161) Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1988.

Miles, Barry. Ginsberg: A Biography. New York: Simon and Schuster, c1989.

­­­­­­. Two Lectures on the Work of Allen Ginsberg. (Turret Papers, no. 1) London: Turret Books, 1992.

Morgan, Bill, ed. Kanreki: A Tribute to Allen Ginsberg, pt. 2. Drawing by Robert LaVigne. New York: Lospecchio Press, 1986.

Morgan, Bill. The Response to Allen Ginsberg, 1926(1994: A Bibliography of Secondary Sources. (Bibliographies and Indexes in American Literature, no. 23) Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1996.

­­­­­­. The Works of Allen Ginsberg, 1941(1994: A Descriptive Bibliography. (Bibliographies and Indexes in American Literature, no. 19) Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1995.

Morgan, Bill, and Rob Rosenthal. Best Minds: A Tribute to Allen Ginsberg. New York: Lospecchio Press, 1986.

Of an edition of 226 copies, no. 111 of 200 numbered and signed by the editors.

Mottram, Eric. Allen Ginsberg in the Sixties. Brighton, England, and Seattle: Unicorn Bookshop, 1972.

Portuges, Paul. The Visionary Poetics of Allen Ginsberg. Santa Barbara, Calif: Ross-Erikson, 1978.

Schumacher, Michael. Dharma Lion: A Biography of Allen Ginsberg. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992.

Simpson, Louis Aston Marantz. A Revolution in Taste: Studies of Dylan Thomas, Allen Ginsberg, Sylvia Plath, and Robert Lowell. New York: MacMillan, c1978.

Sinclair, Iain. The Kodak Mantra Diaries, October 1966 to June 1971. London: Albion Village Press, 1971.

Tysh, Christine. Allen Ginsberg: Étude de Christine Tysh, choix de poèmes, bibliographie, illustrations. Translated by Claude Guillot. (Poetes d'aujourd'hui, 221) Paris: Editions Seghers, 1974.

Whitmer, Peter O. Aquarius Revisited: Seven Who Created the Sixties Counterculture That Changed America: William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Ken Kesey, Timothy Leary, Norman Mailer, Tom Robbins, Hunter S. Thompson. New York: Macmillan, c1987.

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Foreign Translations

Reality Sandwiches. Berlin: Nishen, 1989.

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Records and Tapes

Allen Ginsberg Reading at Better Books. London: Better Books, c1959. Sound recording.

Ginsberg's Thing. N.p.: Douglas International, n.d. Sound recording.

"The recordings took place at the Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto, Italy."

Howl, and Other Poems. N.p.: Fantasy Records, [196-?]. Sound recording.

Recorded in Chicago, January 1959, and in San Francisco, June 1959. Schäffer, Boguslaw. Howl: For Speaker and Ensemble of Performers after Allen Ginsberg. Translated by Leszek Elektorowicz. Krakow: Polskie Wydawn. Muzyczne, c1974. Score and sound recording.

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Miscellaneous

* Consulting I Ching Smoking Pot Listening to the Fugs Sing Blake. Pleasant Valley, N.Y.: Kriya Press, 1967. Broadside.

No. 15 of limited ed. of 100 copies.

* Entering Kansas City High. (Formula series, no. 5) Lawrence, Kans.: T. Williams, 1967. Broadside.

* Kral Majales. Drawing by Robert LaVigne. Berkeley: Oyez, 1965. Broadside.

Signed by the author and the illustrator.

* Moloch. Original wood engraving by Lynd Ward. Lincoln, Mass.: Penmaen Press, 1978. Broadside.

"The text is Part II of Howl . . . "
600 copies hand-printed.

* Punk Rock Your My Big Cry Baby. Grindstone City, Mich.: The Alternative Press, 1977. Broadside.

* Rain-wet Asphalt Heat, Garbage Curbed Cans Overflowing. Detroit: Alternative Press, 1970. Broadside.

* Returning to the Country for a Brief Visit. California, Pa.: Unspeakable Visions of the Individual, c1976. Postcard.

* The Rune. (Special Post Card Series, 8) New York: Hardly Press, c1978. Postcard.

* Tear Gas Rag. Illustrated by Karyl Klopp. 1st ed. Cambridge, Mass.: The Pomegranate Press, 1972. Broadside.

No. 26 of 250 copies, signed by the author and the illustrator.

Uptown N.Y. 1st ed. London: Poster Dresses Ltd., [1968?]. Poster.

* What's Dead? N.p.: Bookslinger, c1980; printed by Toothpaste Press. Broadside.

Copy A/C of an edition of 125 numbered and 26 lettered copies, all signed by the author.

* Who Be Kind To. (A Cranium Broadside) San Francisco: Cranium Press, 1965. Broadside.

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